Table 3.
Percentage distributions of basic demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Chinese centenarians interviewed in the CLHLS 2008 wave by gender and urban/rural status
| Rural areas | Urban areas | Rural-Urban combined | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Two-sex | Men | Women | Two-sex | Men | Women | Two-sex | |
| Sample size | 369 | 1751 | 2120 | 319 | 974 | 1293 | 688 | 2725 | 3413 |
| Marital status | |||||||||
| Married | 10.57 | 1.26 | 2.88 | 13.17 | 1.75 | 4.56 | 11.77 | 1.43 | 3.52 |
| Divorced | 0.27 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
| Widowed | 88.89 | 98.40 | 96.75 | 86.21 | 97.43 | 94.66 | 87.65 | 98.06 | 95.96 |
| Never married | 0.27 | 0.29 | 0.28 | 0.63 | 0.72 | 0.70 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.44 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Living arrangement | |||||||||
| Living with family | 88.62 | 89.21 | 89.10 | 90.91 | 88.09 | 88.79 | 89.68 | 88.81 | 88.98 |
| Living alone | 10.84 | 9.48 | 9.72 | 5.33 | 4.72 | 4.87 | 8.28 | 7.78 | 7.88 |
| Living in an institution | 0.54 | 1.31 | 1.18 | 3.76 | 7.19 | 6.34 | 2.03 | 3.41 | 3.14 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Age at first marriage | |||||||||
| <=14 | 0.89 | 6.96 | 5.89 | 0.00 | 3.18 | 2.38 | 0.47 | 5.58 | 4.53 |
| 15–19 | 29.67 | 52.59 | 48.57 | 28.99 | 45.33 | 41.22 | 29.35 | 49.94 | 45.71 |
| 20–24 | 36.20 | 33.99 | 34.38 | 41.69 | 45.23 | 44.33 | 38.82 | 38.10 | 38.25 |
| 25–29 | 17.80 | 4.68 | 6.99 | 17.59 | 4.61 | 7.88 | 17.70 | 4.66 | 7.34 |
| >=30 | 15.43 | 1.77 | 4.17 | 11.73 | 1.65 | 4.19 | 13.66 | 1.73 | 4.18 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Mean age at 1st marriage | 23.08 | 19.11 | 19.81 | 22.61 | 19.67 | 20.41 | 22.86 | 19.32 | 20.04 |
| Number of children ever born | |||||||||
| 0 | 2.19 | 1.83 | 1.89 | 2.20 | 4.03 | 3.58 | 2.20 | 2.61 | 2.53 |
| 1–2 | 16.99 | 17.11 | 17.08 | 22.33 | 22.93 | 22.78 | 19.47 | 19.18 | 19.24 |
| 3–4 | 27.67 | 30.09 | 29.67 | 33.65 | 32.64 | 32.89 | 30.45 | 31.00 | 30.89 |
| 5–6 | 33.70 | 29.86 | 30.53 | 25.79 | 23.76 | 24.26 | 30.01 | 27.69 | 28.16 |
| 7–9 | 16.99 | 16.76 | 16.80 | 14.47 | 13.74 | 13.92 | 15.81 | 15.68 | 15.71 |
| >=10 | 2.47 | 4.35 | 4.02 | 1.57 | 2.89 | 2.57 | 2.05 | 3.83 | 3.47 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Number of years of schooling | |||||||||
| 0 | 64.03 | 96.06 | 90.51 | 48.89 | 88.60 | 78.83 | 57.04 | 93.41 | 86.11 |
| 1–2 | 9.81 | 1.71 | 3.12 | 9.52 | 2.90 | 4.53 | 9.68 | 2.14 | 3.65 |
| 3–4 | 12.26 | 1.26 | 3.16 | 13.97 | 3.01 | 5.70 | 13.05 | 1.88 | 4.12 |
| 5–6 | 7.63 | 0.51 | 1.75 | 15.56 | 3.01 | 6.09 | 11.29 | 1.40 | 3.39 |
| 7–9 | 4.36 | 0.40 | 1.09 | 4.44 | 1.14 | 1.95 | 4.40 | 0.66 | 1.41 |
| 10–12 | 1.36 | 0.06 | 0.28 | 3.17 | 0.83 | 1.41 | 2.20 | 0.33 | 0.71 |
| >=13 | 0.54 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 4.44 | 0.52 | 1.48 | 2.35 | 0.18 | 0.62 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Mean # years of schooling | 1.57 | 0.14 | 0.39 | 2.94 | 0.58 | 1.16 | 2.20 | 0.29 | 0.68 |
| Occupation before age 60 | |||||||||
| Professionals and technicians | 4.08 | 0.17 | 0.85 | 8.78 | 1.44 | 3.25 | 6.26 | 0.62 | 1.76 |
| Administrative managers | 1.63 | 0.11 | 0.38 | 3.45 | 0.10 | 0.93 | 2.47 | 0.11 | 0.59 |
| Clerks | 5.43 | 1.03 | 1.79 | 34.48 | 7.09 | 13.85 | 18.92 | 3.19 | 6.36 |
| Self-employed | 1.63 | 0.40 | 0.61 | 3.76 | 2.47 | 2.79 | 2.62 | 1.14 | 1.44 |
| Agriculture, husbandry, fishery | 80.43 | 86.01 | 85.04 | 40.44 | 49.43 | 47.21 | 61.86 | 72.94 | 70.71 |
| Houseworkers | 2.99 | 10.79 | 9.44 | 3.45 | 34.02 | 26.47 | 3.20 | 19.09 | 15.89 |
| Military personnel | 0.82 | 0.29 | 0.38 | 2.19 | 0.10 | 0.62 | 1.46 | 0.22 | 0.47 |
| Never worked | 0.00 | 0.57 | 0.47 | 0.63 | 3.60 | 2.86 | 0.29 | 1.65 | 1.38 |
| Others | 2.99 | 0.63 | 1.04 | 2.82 | 1.75 | 2.01 | 2.91 | 1.03 | 1.41 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |